New York is rarely hit by tornadoes. But as Fashion Week comes to a close two ripped through New York.
The first hit at Breezy Point on Queens’ Rockaway Peninsula, the second hit the Canarsie area in Brooklyn.
The tornadoes have caused damage to buildings, blackouts, and threw debris into the air. The US Open Tennis Tournament had to be suspended.
George Soros: Germany should back growth or leave euro – Telegraph.
As the debt crisis continues in Europe, many of the same arguments are being made within the eurozone countries as to the best way forward. Italy and Spain are both edging closer to needing a bailout; and it will not be long before Greece will be requiring another bailout package.
However, the arguments between growth and austerity continue. Germany are reluctant to continue to pay the bills, without the proper checks in place. But will Spain and Italy be prepared to sign away political autonomy?
Now George Soros has said “Germany must back growth or leave the euro”. To back growth means Germany continues to bailout and lend more money – increasing indebtedness. Germany has made it clear it desires growth, but not by creating more debt.
However, if Germany were to leave the euro it would enable the Euro to devalue and ease the economic pain in the struggling nations.
Welcoming the Drepung Loseling Phukhang Monastery monks to perform a sand mandala is the Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena, California.
The ceremony concludes on September 9, 2012 where the sand mandala is blessed by the monks, some sand of which is distributed to some attendees and the rest dumped into the ocean where, according to Buddhist spiritual understanding, it blesses all living beings in its vicinity.
See Sand Mandala at Pacific Asia Museum at Pasadena Playhouse District’s Blog.
“I could end the deficit in 5 minutes,” he told CNBC. “You just
pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more
than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible
for re-election.
The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds)
took only 3 months & 8 days to be ratified! Why? Simple!
The people demanded it. That was in 1971 – before computers, e-mail,
cell phones, etc.
Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, seven (7) took one (1) year
or less to become the law of the land – all because of public pressure.
Warren Buffet is asking each addressee to forward this email to
a minimum of twenty people on their address list; in turn ask
each of those to do likewise.
In three days, most people in The United States of America will
have the message.
This is one idea that really should be passed
around.
Congressional Reform Act of 2012
1. No Tenure / No Pension.
A Congressman/woman collects a salary while in office and receives no
pay when they’re out of office.
2. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social
Security.
All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the
Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into
the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the
American people. It may not be used for any other purpose.
3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all
Americans do.
4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise.
Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.
5. Congress loses their current health care system and
participates in the same health care system as the American people.
6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the
American people.
7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen/women are void
effective 12/1/12. The American people did not make this
contract with Congressmen/women.
Congress made all these contracts for themselves. Serving in
Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers
envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their
term(s), then go home and back to work.
If each person contacts a minimum of twenty people then it will
only take three days for most people (in the U.S. ) to receive
the message. Don’t you think it’s time?
THIS IS HOW YOU FIX CONGRESS!
Los Angeles: Performing a sacred sand mandala religious ceremony, which is sponsored by The Drepung Loseling Phukhang Monastery in South India, are Tibetan Buddhist monks at the Los Angeles County Museum.
From September 11, 2012 until the closing ceremony on September 15th, these monks will be performing the ritual of the sand mandala.
Monks who have performed these same rituals indicate that they are honoring the gods of the underworld who are depicted in the artwork of the mandala. In doing so, they release a “blessing” of these gods into the region in which they are performing the mandala, into the homes of those who take the blessed sand home, and into the waters in which the sand is poured out.
Source Sacred Tibetan Art Sand Mandala Painting – Events Calendar | County of Los Angeles Public Library.
Pasadena, CA. The Pacific Asia Museum is welcoming the Buddhists monks from Drepung Loseling Phukhang Khangsten to perform their religious sand mandala ceremony from September 5-9, 2012.
The Drepund Loseling Phukhang Khangsten Monastery used to be home to 12,000 monks. It is a sub-monastery of the Drepung Loseling Monastery now.
The mandala ceremony includes chanted mantras and music. The “artwork” is a depiction of a deity or deities or, god or gods. In blessing or consecrating the artwork to this god or gods and then releasing the “blessed” sand upon the mandala’s deconstruction, it is intended that the essence of this god or gods will accompany the sand and release its essence in the environment in which it is located.
They also will release some of the “consecrated” sand into the moving water where all living beings worldwide will be “blessed”.
Source www.pacificasiamuseum.org
Europe’s a soft touch for the world’s most dangerous terrorist – Telegraph.
The world’s most dangerous man is an Iranian, and the head of the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. He is Qassem Suleimani. He works closely with Hizbollah and has mastermind mass murder in dozens of countries.
If Iran are allowed to build a nuclear device, it is one Suleimani and his terrorist groups will have access to.
However, in Europe Hizbollah has charitable status. The European Union does not recognise Hizbollah as a terrorist organisation. Therefore, Hizbollah are able raise millions in Europe and recruit in European universities. When confronted with this, EU officials asked for the “tangible evidence” for Hizbollah’s terrorist activities.
The head of Hizbollah has admitted that if they were placed on the European terrorist list it would “destroy Hizbollah”, by drying up their finances.
Iran sends elite troops to aid Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria – Telegraph.
Western Intelligence agencies have reported that Iran have sent elite troops to help Assad’s regime in Syria. They claim the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has sanctioned the sending of 150 of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. Syria is Iran’s closest ally in the region and the Iranians do not want to see the Assad regime fall.
Assad has enabled Iran to ship arms, supplies and equipment to Lebanon to help Hizbollah maintain it’s aggression against Israel.
Back in June, Joel Silver inked a 12-film distribution deal with Universal Pictures a month after he ended his 25-year relationship at Warner Bros. At the time, we told you the Matrix and Sherlock Holmes producer made a pitch to the Venice Neighborhood Council to purchase the 1939-built U.S. Post Office on Windward Circle. Now that deal has been completed, with the facility to become the new home of Silver Pictures once restoration and renovations are completed sometime in 2014. The building was constructed as part of the Federal Works Progress Administration and is the latest historical structure purchased by Silver, who bought the Frank Lloyd Wright-built Storer House. “As a longtime preservationist of architecture, I’m thrilled to move forward with the restoration and renovation of the former Venice Post Office,” said Silver. “While we are still in the very early stages of the process, I am committed to the rehabilitation of the building and its unique WPA features and the restoration of the treasured Edward Biberman ‘Story of Venice’ mural. I am also committed to being a good neighbor in the Venice community, whether through providing public access to the space or in developing programs for the community related to film, art and architecture.”
Related: EXCLUSIVE: Joel Silver Going Indie And Making 12-Film Distribution Deal With Universal For Post-Warner Bros Producing
Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence Kansas.
Not far from the geographical center of the contiguous United States which is located in Lebanon, Kansas, are Tibetan Buddhist monks.
These monks are from the same monastery (Drepung Gomang Monastic College) in India who performed a sand mandala in Kansas City earlier this week.
Their intent is to release world peace.
The mandala depicts a deity or deities, by creating and releasing the mandala, they indicate that it honors the deity or deities which in turn blesses the region.
Two mandalas in a week in Kansas, in the center of the United States… lose dry close to the IHOP International House of Prayer Christian community.
Source Tibetan Cultural Events at KU | Programs | Spencer Museum of Art.
If you weren’t at a fashion party last night, well, you missed out on all the fun. With New York Fashion Week kicking off today, every stylish guy and gal in the city seemed to be toasting, speechifying, air-kissing and posing for pictures at a slew of fashion fetes last night to inaugurate the big week ahead.
Du Jour, the latest glossy magazine to hit newsstands, feted its debut issue with a party hosted by cover star Christy Turlington and photographer Bruce Weber. Held at Capitale, the party drew the likes of Russell Simmons, Amar’e Stoudemire, Hoda Kotb and model Hilary Rhoda.
New York’s revamped The Cut, which officially debuted August 13, also threw itself a launch party on the rooftop of the NoMad Hotel, attended by Nigel Barker, Coco Rocha, Lindsay Ellingson and Yigal Azrouel.
Farther uptown, shoe designer Brian Atwood — recently reprimanded for his overly sexy shoe ads — threw a party celebrating the opening of his new Madison Avenue store, attended by pals Rachel Zoe, Michelle Trachtenberg, Heidi Klum, Ryan Lochte and Candice Swanepoel (star of the aforementioned ads).
There were also ceremonies honoring some of fashion’s greatest: the Fashion Institute of Technology presented Oscar de la Renta with the 2012 Couture Council Award for Artistry at a luncheon earlier in the day (Sarah Jessica Parker and Anna Wintour were by his side) and the 9th Annual Style Awards crowned Carolina Herrera the Designer Of The Year that evening at Lincoln Center (Katie Holmes did the honors).
And that doesn’t even include SPIN and Refinery29’s party across the river in Brooklyn, the launch of the latest fashion tome, “Antonio Lopez: Fashion, Art, Sex and Disco” (Lopez was a friend of Karl Largerfeld) and the splashy red carpet premiere of “Boardwalk Empire” which drew the Hollywood crowd.
It was hard to be in multiple places at once, but the most seasoned partygoers managed to hit several events each: Iman and Rachel Roy, for example, showed their faces at both the Style Awards and Brian Atwood’s fete and Kim Kardashian wowed in a dramatic cutout dress at both the Brian Atwood store and Du Jour’s launch.
As for us? We headed to Williamsburg for Refinery29’s bash and stayed put.
Check out last night’s party snaps… and just envision the hangovers everyone’s nursing today. Happy first day of Fashion Week, y’all!
via Fashion Week Parties Swarm New York City (PHOTOS)
How charming. Kanye West is proud of his “perfect bitch” Kim Kardashian and her sex tape.
TMZ has heard West’s new single “Clique,” in which he references his girlfriend’s infamous sex tape from 2007.
West raps: “Eat breakfast at Gucci. My girl a superstar all from a home movie.”
If there’s any doubt who Yeezy could be rapping about, consider the title of Kardashian’s sex tape: “Kim Kardashian Superstar.”
West is a “self-described porn connoisseur,” according to TMZ, which also notes that Kardashian credits her initial fame to the film.
What a perfect pair.
more at: Kanye West raps about Kim Kardashian’s sex tape – NYPOST.com
